frax

Posted 22 May 2008 - 10:32 AM

I have been working on project A for some time, and this project had some specific design guidelines which specified certain spot colors as well as specific fonts (that were not the most common ones).

Now I just finished project B, and it went to printing. Some of the maps from project A had been recycled in project B. Project B only used process colors and some other fonts (more common).

When things came back from the press a few maps didn't turn out that well, and what happened was that I had not cleaned up all the spot colors and odd fonts properly - and my layout guy was sloppy with the pre-flight before sending it out to the printer (time constraints and deadlines...)

Now - how can I prevent this from happening again on my end? Is it possible to preflight illustrator files... ?

CHART

Posted 22 May 2008 - 11:21 AM

CHART

Chart

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